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  • Trump Can Probably Kiss a Future Nobel Peace Prize Goodbye

    Source: Independent Institute
    by Ivan Eland

    “Although he covets the Nobel Peace Prize itself, President Donald Trump, in his second administration, has dialed up government aggression both at home and abroad.” (01/26/26)

    https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/26/trump-nobel-peace-prize/

  • Immigration — A Pox on Both Your Houses

    Source: Coyote Blog
    by Warren Meyer

    “It is almost impossible to have a discussion on immigration with either Republicans or Democrats because the conversation quickly devolves into a pointless blame game, eg ‘”how can you defend x when other defenders of x have done so many things wrong’ where x = something like ‘the virtues of immigration’ or ‘consistent enforcement of current immigration laws.’ Well, I can give you the definitive answer to this blame game — it is both their faults. Before getting into it, a bit of history.” (01/26/26)

    https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2026/01/immigration-a-pox-on-both-your-houses.html

  • Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by James Bovard

    “On Saturday, federal agents in Minneapolis killed protester Alex Pretti, shooting him in the back 10 times after they had taken away the pistol he legally carried. White House Deputy Chief Stephen Miller quickly settled the issue: ‘A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.’ A few hours after Pretti was killed, I commented on Twitter/X: ‘How many of the Trump supporters cheering the killing of the Minneapolis demonstrator today would also cheer for the FBI sniper killing Vicki Weaver in her cabin door at Ruby Ridge in 1992?’ This outraged plenty of Trump supporters but the parallels between the federal killings in 1992 and on Saturday are striking.” (01/26/26)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/latest-federal-killing-minnesota-echoes-ruby-ridge

  • America Is Now a Family Business

    Source: Persuasion
    by Stephen E Hanson & Jeffrey S Kopstein

    “Donald J. Trump has returned to the presidency with a simple, radical ambition: to turn the American state into a family business. And business is booming: since Trump took office, he and his family have made an estimated $3.4 billion. Meanwhile, the scale of transformation of the American body politic has been jaw-dropping. Loyalty now counts for more than competence in government service, public office is openly monetized, and personal favor has replaced impersonal rule as the basis of authority. More than a century ago, Max Weber identified this form of government and gave it a name — patrimonialism.” (01/26/26)

    https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-patrimonial-president

  • Why Small Educators Will Outsell Big Influencers

    Source: Arkhub Insights
    by Arkhub Insights

    “Small creators don’t outperform big accounts because they’re better marketers. They outperform them because they’re better embedded in the lives of the people they serve. Their audiences aren’t scrolling past them. They’re listening, asking questions, and coming back. That dynamic is incredibly familiar if you’ve ever taught anything. Educators, coaches, and practitioners have always operated this way.” (01/26/26)

    https://arkhub.substack.com/p/why-small-educators-will-outsell

  • Republicans and MAGA: Carrying a Gun Is a Bad Thing Now

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by Ryan McMaken

    “It’s increasingly difficult to imagine anything the Trump administration can do that conservatives and Republicans will not make excuses for. There is apparently no federal power and no act by the US’s standing army of federal cops that Trump supporters won’t endorse. The latest example is Republicans new assault on the Second Amendment and against private citizens carrying firearms. GOP mouthpieces are informing us that Americans are not allowed to be armed with a gun at a protest.” (01/26/26)

    https://mises.org/power-market/republicans-and-maga-carrying-gun-bad-thing-now

  • Two cities under siege

    Source: The Watch
    by Radley Balko

    “Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.” (01/26/26)

    https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities-under-siege

  • The Alex Pretti shooting and the growing strain on the First Amendment

    Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
    by Aaron Terr

    “The drumbeat of statements from the administration that are openly hostile to basic First Amendment rights should disturb every American. And when Americans see someone shot dead in the street shortly after recording federal agents — and then hear top government officials immediately justify the shooting before any investigation can begin — they will reasonably fear that exercising these rights carries not just legal risk but physical danger.” (01/26/26)

    https://www.thefire.org/news/alex-pretti-shooting-and-growing-strain-first-amendment

  • From Bush to Trump

    Source: Notablog
    by Chris Matthew Sciabarra

    “As I have argued, Trump’s project is less about controlling crime, and more about deporting those ‘illegals’ who don’t fit into his vision of a country dominated by white identity politics. … The irony of all this is that Trump once decried the administration of George W. Bush as ‘failed and uninspiring.’ But if it were not for the ‘innovations’ of Bush’s presidency, crafted nearly a quarter-century ago, Trump would not have had the instruments of domestic warfare and ethnic cleansing that he’s been using with impunity.” (01/26/26)

    https://notablog.net/2026/01/25/from-bush-to-trump/

  • Embrace Cultural Creative Destruction

    Source: Bet On It
    by Bryan Caplan

    “Almost everyone embraces ‘cultural’ critiques of capitalism. The left has ‘cultural studies;’;the right has the mantra, ‘We’re a country, not an economy.’ The upshot, in both cases, is that government ought to do something about culture. Freeze it in place? Force it to progress? Turn back the clock? My latest book of essays, You Have No Right to Your Culture: Essays on the Human Condition, flips this narrative. All of these demands for ‘reshaping culture’ are thinly-veiled calls for coercing humans.” (01/26/26)

    https://www.betonit.ai/p/embrace-cultural-creative-destruction

  • No Healthy Person Wants To Rule The World Or Become A Billionaire

    Source: Caitlin Johnstone
    by Caitlin Johnstone

    “No mentally healthy person wants to rule the world. Nobody with a functioning conscience and a working empathy center in their brain is interested in becoming a billionaire. We are ruled by the most dysfunctional members of our species. The most wounded, neurotic and sociopathic among us. The least wise, caring and insightful. What drives a person to claw their way to the top of a wildly sick society and become a lord of the dystopia?” (01/26/26)

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/01/26/no-healthy-person-wants-to-rule-the-world-or-become-a-billionaire/